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The Hollywood Reporter described the outcome as "a major upset". Der Spiegel said it was a "very conservative selection."[9]Der Tagesspiegel criticised the outcome, "The jury shunned almost all the contemporary films that were admired or hotly debated at an otherwise pretty remarkable festival."[10] Paolo Taviani said "We hope that when the film is released to the general public that cinemagoers will say to themselves or even those around them... that even a prisoner with a dreadful sentence, even a life sentence, is and remains a human being". Vittorio Taviani read out the names of the cast.[9]

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Farewell, My Queen
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Farewell, My Queen is a 2012 French drama film directed by Benoît Jacquot and based on the novel of the same name by Chantal Thomas, who won the Prix Femina in 2002. It gives an account of the last days of Marie Antoinette in power seen through the eyes of Sidonie Laborde. The film stars Diane Kruger as the Queen, Léa Seydoux and it opened the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012 and has subsequently been screened at other festivals. Its release date was 21 March 2012 in France, in 1789, on the eve of the French Revolution, the court at the Palace of Versailles still live their routines, relatively unconcerned by the increasing turmoil in Paris a mere twenty miles away. The routines are seen through the eyes of the young Sidonie Laborde, when news about the storming of the Bastille reaches the Court, most aristocrats and servants desert the Palace and abandon the Royal Family, fearing that the government is falling. But Sidonie, a believer in the monarchy, refuses to flee. She feels secure under the protection of the Royal Family and she does not know these are the last three days she will spend by the Queens side. The Queen orders Sidonie to disguise herself as Yolande Martine Gabrielle de Polastron, Duchess of Polignac and this Sidonie does, despite a prior warning from one of the Queens ladies in waiting. Sidonie is stripped naked and then redressed in a green gown, the coach carrying Sidonie is also occupied by the real Duchess and her husband, dressed as her servants. They treat her with disdain during the journey but she plays her role convincingly enough to enable the party to cross the border. As the film ends, she remarks that she has no other than her position as reader to the Queen. Farewell, My Queen was directed by Benoît Jacquot and based on a script by him, Chantal Thomas and they adapted the script from the novel of the same name by Thomas. She won the Prix Femina for her book in 2002, after reading Chantals feminist novel, Jacquot wanted to create a film from this perspective. The German actress Diane Kruger was cast as Marie Antoinette, recognizing that many audience members had preconceptions of Marie Antoinette, Kruger approached the role by trying not to judge her. We have the origins, the same age. I could relate to her as a woman, while the actress Léa Seydoux is younger than the age of the lectrice character in the novel, Jacquot cast her as Laborde because she brought this carnal dimension. He also added to the plot the relationship between the Queen and duchess of Polignac, he thought it might be possible, given womens strong relationships with each other in that time period. The film opened the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012, farewell, My Queen opened in theaters in France on 21 March 2012, and was released on a limited basis to American theaters on 13 July 2012

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Berlin International Film Festival
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The Berlin International Film Festival, also called the Berlinale, is one of the worlds leading film festivals and most reputable media events. It is held annually in Berlin, Germany, founded in West Berlin in 1951, the festival has been celebrated annually in February since 1978. With around 300,000 tickets sold and 500,000 admissions it is considered the largest publicly attended film festival based on actual attendance rates. Up to 400 films are shown in sections, representing a comprehensive array of the cinematic world. Around twenty films compete for the called the Golden and Silver Bears. Since 2001 the director of the festival has been Dieter Kosslick, the European Film Market, a film trade fair held simultaneously to the Berlinale, is a major industry meeting for the international film circuit. The trade fair serves distributors, film buyers, producers, financiers, the Berlinale Talent Campus, a week-long series of lectures and workshops, gathers young filmmakers from around the globe. It partners with the festival itself and is considered to be a forum for upcoming artists, the festival, the EFM and other satellite events are attended by around 20,000 professionals from over 130 countries. More than 4200 journalists are responsible for the exposure in over 110 countries. At high-profile feature film premieres, movie stars and celebrities are present at the red carpet, the Berlinale has established a cosmopolitan character integrating art, glamour, commerce and a global media attention. The Berlin International Film Festival was founded in West Berlin in 1951, alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca opened the first Berlinale. Although the film had premiered in 1940, many Germans had been unable to watch it until after the war ended, since 1978 the festival has been celebrated annually in February. The next-to-most recent festival, the 66th Berlinale, was held from 11 February to 21 February 2016, meryl Streep presided over the international jury. Joel and Ethan Coens film Hail, Caesar. was selected to open the festival, the Golden Bear was awarded to the Italian documentary Fire at Sea, directed by Gianfranco Rosi. The 67th Berlin International Film Festival was held February 9 to February 19,2017, the festival is composed of seven different film sections. Films are chosen in each category by a director with the advice of a committee of film experts. Categories include, Competition, comprises feature-length films yet to be released outside their country of origin, films in the Competition section compete for several prizes, including the top Golden Bear for the best film and a series of Silver Bears for acting, writing and production. Panorama, comprises new independent and arthouse films that deal with controversial subjects or unconventional aesthetic styles, films in the category are intended to provoke discussion, and have historically involved themes such as LGBT issues

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Berlinale Palace, the main venue at Potsdamer Platz
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Venues of the festival are spread throughout the central city districts
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The Berlinale Palast is the venue for the competition premieres

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Mike Leigh
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Mike Leigh OBE is an English writer and director of film and theatre. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before honing his skills at East 15 Acting School and further at the Camberwell School of Art. He began as a director and playwright in the mid-1960s. In the 1970s and 1980s his career moved between theatre work and making films for BBC Television, many of which were characterised by a gritty kitchen sink realism style. His well-known films include the comedy-dramas Life is Sweet and Career Girls, the Gilbert and Sullivan biographical film Topsy-Turvy, some of his notable stage plays include Smelling A Rat, Its A Great Big Shame, Greek Tragedy, Goose-Pimples, Ecstasy, and Abigails Party. Leigh is known for his lengthy rehearsal and improvisation techniques with actors to build characters and his purpose is to capture reality and present emotional, subjective, intuitive, instinctive, vulnerable films. His aesthetic has been compared to the sensibility of the Japanese director Yasujirō Ozu. Ian Buruma, writing in The New York Review of Books in January 1994, noted, like other wholly original artists, he has staked out his own territory. Leighs London is as distinctive as Fellinis Rome or Ozus Tokyo, Leigh was the son of Phyllis Pauline and Alfred Abraham Leigh, a doctor. Leigh was brought up in Broughton, Salford and he is from a Jewish immigrant family whose surname, originally Lieberman, had been anglicised in 1939 for obvious reasons. When the war ended Leighs father began his career as a practitioner in Higher Broughton, the epicentre of Leighs youngest years. Leigh went to Salford Grammar School, as did the director Les Blair, his friend, there was a strong tradition of drama in the all-boys school, and an English master, called Mr Nutter, supplied the library with newly published plays. Outside of school, Leigh thrived in the Manchester branch of Habonim and he attended summer camps and winter activities over the Christmas break all round the country in the late 1950s. Throughout this time, the most important part of his artistic consumption was the cinema, in 1960, to his utter astonishment, he won a scholarship to RADA. Initially trained as an actor at RADA, Leigh went on to start honing his skills at East 15 Acting School where he met the actress Alison Steadman. Leigh responded negatively to RADAs agenda, found himself being taught how to laugh, cry and snog for weekly rep purposes and so became a sullen student. He later attended Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, the visual worlds of Ronald Searle, George Grosz, Picasso, and William Hogarth exerted another kind of influence. He played small roles in several British films in the early 1960s, in 1964–65 he teamed up with David Halliwell, and designed and directed the first production of Little Malcolm and his Struggle Against the Eunuchs at the Unity Theatre

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Mike Leigh, 2012

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Anton Corbijn
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Anton Johannes Gerrit Corbijn van Willenswaard is a Dutch photographer, music video director, and film director. He is the director behind the visual output of Depeche Mode and U2, having handled the principal promotion. Anton Johannes Gerrit Corbijn van Willenswaard was born on 20 May 1955 in Strijen in the Netherlands and his father, Anton Corbijn van Willenswaard, took up the same position in Hoogland and Groningen, moving his wife and four children with him. His mother, Marietje Groeneboer, was a nurse and was raised in a parsons family, photographer and director Maarten Corbijn is a younger brother. Grandfather Anton Johannes van Willenswaard was an art teacher at Christian schools in Hilversum, Corbijn began his career as a music photographer when he saw the Dutch musician Herman Brood playing in a café in Groningen around 1975. He took a lot of photographs of the band Herman Brood & His Wild Romance, from the late 1970s the London-based New Musical Express, a weekly music paper, featured his work on a regular basis and would often have a photograph by him on the front page. One such occasion was a portrait of David Bowie wearing a loincloth backstage in New York when starring in The Elephant Man, in the early years of London-based The Face, a glossy monthly post-punk life style / music magazine, Corbijn was a regular contributor. He made his name photographing in black-and-white but in May 1989 he began taking pictures in colour using filters and his first venture in this medium was for Siouxsie Sioux. Other album covers featuring work by Corbijn include those for Springsteen, Nick Cave, Siouxsies second band The Creatures, Bryan Adams, Metallica, the Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, The Killers, Simple Minds, R. E. M. The Bee Gees, Saybia and Moke, Corbijn began his music video directing career when Palais Schaumburg asked him to direct a video. After seeing the video for Hockey, the band Propaganda had Corbijn direct Dr. Mabuse. After that he directed videos for David Sylvian, Echo & the Bunnymen, Golden Earring, Front 242, Depeche Mode, Roxette and his first video in colour was made for U2 in 1984 for their single Pride. In 2005 Palm Pictures released a DVD collection of Corbijns music video output as part of the Directors Label series, in 1994 Corbijn directed a short film about Captain Beefheart/Don Van Vliet for the BBC called Some Yoyo Stuff. He made his film debut with Control, a film about the life of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis. It premiered to rave reviews at the Cannes Film Festival on 17 May 2007, the film is based on Deborah Curtis book Touching from a Distance about her late husband and the biography Torn Apart by Lindsay Reade and Mick Middles. 2010 Corbijn returned as a director with the character-based thriller The American, on 26 October 2011 Corbijn directed a webcast by Coldplay from the Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas in Madrid, Spain. His film A Most Wanted Man was released in 2014, the John le Carré novel of the same name, which is loosely based on the true War on Terror story of Murat Kurnaz, was set in part in Hamburg, as parts of the movie were. In February 2014, he start filming his next project Life about James Dean, author William Gibson refers to a fictitious portrait by Corbijn of the character Hollis Henry in his 2007 novel Spook Country

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Anton Corbijn in 2012

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Asghar Farhadi
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Asghar Farhadi is an Iranian film director and screenwriter. Among other awards, he has received a Golden Globe Award as well as two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film for his movies A Separation and The Salesman in 2012 and 2017, respectively. He was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the world by Time magazine in 2012, Farhadi was born in Khomeyni Shahr, a city located in the Isfahan province near the city of Isfahan. He is a graduate of theatre, with a BA in Dramatic Arts and MA in Stage Direction from University of Tehran and Tarbiat Modares University, respectively. Farhadi made short 8mm and 16mm films in the Isfahan branch of the Iranian Young Cinema Society and he also directed such TV series as A Tale of a City and co-wrote the screenplay for Ebrahim Hatamikia’s Low Heights. Dancing in the Dust was his film debut, which he followed with A Beautiful City. His third film, Fireworks Wednesday, won the Gold Hugo at the 2006 Chicago International Film Festival and his fourth film, About Elly, won him the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 59th International Berlin Film Festival and also Best Picture at the Tribeca Film Festival. The latter film is about a group of Iranians who take a trip to the Iranian beaches of Caspian Sea that turns tragic, Film theorist and critic David Bordwell has called About Elly a masterpiece. His film A Separation premiered on 9 February 2011 at the 29th Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran and it won Farhadi four awards including Best Director. On 15 February 2011, it played in competition at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival. In June 2011, A Separation won the Sydney Film Prize in competition with Cannes Festivals winner The Tree of Life, on 19 December 2011, Farhadi was announced as being on the jury for the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival, held in February 2012. On 15 January 2012, A Separation won the Golden Globe for the Best Foreign Language Film, on 26 February 2012, A Separation became the first Iranian movie to win an Oscar for the best foreign language film at the 84th edition of the Academy Awards. This marked Farhadi as the first Iranian to have won an Academy Award in any of the competitive categories and he was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in June 2012 along with 175 other individuals. A Separation also won the César Award for Best Foreign Film and his 2013 film The Past, starring Bérénice Bejo and Tahar Rahim, competed for the Palme dOr at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Bejo won the Best Actress Award at Cannes for her performance in the film and his 2016 film The Salesman, starring Shahab Hosseini and Taraneh Alidoosti, competed for the Palme dOr at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. The Salesman won two Awards, Best Actor for Shahab Hosseini and Best Screenplay for Farhadi, on 26 February 2017, he won his second Oscar for Best Foreign Film for The Salesman at the 89th Academy Awards. The Salesman had already won the award for the Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival and he then has announced two prominent Iranian Americans, Anousheh Ansari and Firouz Naderi to representing him in the ceremony. Anousheh Ansari is famed for being the first female space tourist and first Iranian in space, a few hours before the ceremony, he addressed a group of protesters in London via a video link from Iran

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Charlotte Gainsbourg
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Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg is a British-French actress and singer. She is the daughter of English actress Jane Birkin and French singer and songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, after making her musical debut with her father on the song Lemon Incest at the age of 12, she released an album with her father at the age of 15. More than 20 years passed before she released three albums as an adult to commercial and critical success, Gainsbourg has also appeared in many films, including several directed by Lars von Trier, and has received both a César Award and the Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award. Gainsbourg was born in London, to English actress and singer Jane Birkin and French actor, Gainsbourg was born at the height of her parents fame, they had made headlines several years earlier with the sexually explicit song Je taime. Moi non plus and by that point had become notorious for their turbulent relationship, as a result, her birth and childhood were well publicised. Her maternal grandmother was actress Judy Campbell, and her uncle is screenwriter Andrew Birkin and she is a cousin of theatre and opera director Sophie Hunter. Her father was Jewish, and her mother is from a Protestant background, Gainsbourg attended École Active Bilingue Jeannine Manuel in Paris and Collège Alpin International Beau Soleil in Switzerland. French is Gainsbourgs first language, but she is fluent in English. Gainsbourg was raised in Paris alongside her half-sister from her mothers marriage to composer John Barry, Kate Barry, according to Birkin, both parents were somewhat neglectful, often spending their nights going out to parties and drinking. She has a brother, Lucien Lulu Gainsbourg, born in 1986 from her fathers relationship with Bambou. On her fathers side she also had two siblings born from his second marriage to Françoise-Antoinette Béatrice Pancrazzi. By 1980, her parents relationship had dissolved and her left her father for the director Jacques Doillon. Her half sister Lou Doillon was born in 1982 as a result of the union, Gainsbourg would go on to work with her stepfather in the film The Temptation of Isabelle in 1985 and later in Amoureuse in 1992, which also starred her spouse Yvan Attal. In 1987 she was the target of a bungled kidnapping, after her parents separated, Gainsbourgs father descended into alcoholism, eventually dying of a heart attack in 1991. Gainsbourg remained devoted to preserving his legacy and preserved his home and she eventually abandoned the project and decided to maintain the house as a private residence instead. On 5 September 2007, Gainsbourg was rushed to a Paris hospital where she underwent surgery for a cerebral hemorrhage and she had been experiencing headaches since a waterskiing accident in the United States several weeks earlier. Gainsbourg grew up on film sets, as both of her parents were involved in the film industry, in 1986, Gainsbourg won a César Award for Most Promising Actress for Leffrontée. That same year Gainsbourg appeared in the film Charlotte for Ever about a man who develops incestuous desires for his daughter after his wife dies

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Gainsbourg at the inauguration of the Jardin Serge Gainsbourg in Paris, 6 April 2011
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Gainsbourg with her mother Jane Birkin in 2011
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Gainsbourg at the 25th César Awards in 2000
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Gainsbourg at the Venice Film Festival in 2007

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Barbara Sukowa
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Barbara Sukowa is a German theatre and film actress. She is known for her work with directors Rainer Werner Fassbinder and she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for the 1986 film Rosa Luxemburg. Her other film appearances include Lola, Europa, M. Butterfly, sukowas stage debut was in Berlin in 1971, in a production of Peter Handkes Der Ritt über den Bodensee. Günter Beelitz invited her to join the ensemble of the Darmstädter National Theatre in the same year. She also worked in Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg, in collaboration with such as Luc Bondy and her roles included Marion in Büchners Dantons Death. Other Shakespeare roles in Europe were Rosalind in As You Like It and she performed in Ibsens The Master Builder. In English, she has worked in a production of The Cherry Orchard, in addition to her stage work, Sukowa is associated with the New German Cinema. She portrayed Mieze in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Berlin Alexanderplatz, which earned her the German best young actress award, in 1985 she appeared in the mini-series Space based on James A. Micheners novel. She received the best actress award at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival for her work in Von Trottas film Rosa Luxemburg, Sukowa has developed a parallel career as a classical music narrator and speaker. She has performed the Speakers role in Arnold Schönberg’s Pierrot lunaire, other performances have been with ensembles in Paris, London, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Madrid, Rome, Tokyo, Salzburg, Los Angeles, and New York City. She narrated Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf both in concert and on record, as well as on a recording of Mendelssohn’s music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream and she has performed in Arthur Honegger’s Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher and Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera. She performed speaking and singing role in Reinbert de Leeuws Im wunderschönen Monat Mai in 2004. She performed the role in the US premiere of Michael Jarrells Cassandre in March 2006. In 2004 she was a member of the jury at the 26th Moscow International Film Festival, on 19 December 2011, it was announced she would be on the jury for the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival, scheduled to be held in February 2012. In 2014, she starred as Jones in Syfys thriller series 12 Monkeys, Sukowa was born in Bremen, Germany. She is married to the artist and director Robert Longo, with whom she has performed as a singer and she has three sons, one from her earlier marriage to Hans-Michael Rehberg, one from her relationship with Daniel Olbrychski, and one from her marriage to Robert Longo

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Barbara Sukowa in February 2010

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Barbara (2012 film)
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Barbara is a 2012 German drama film directed by Christian Petzold. The film competed at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012, the film was selected as the German entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist. East Germany in 1980, Barbara is a physician who arrives for her first day at a rural hospital near the Baltic Sea. She is punished - for the hours in which they find her - by searching her house. In her new job, she works in pediatric surgery, a department led by chief physician André Reiser, the Stasi had agreed to keep it quiet if he agreed to relocate to the provincial hospital and to work for them. So now Reiser reports on suspected people including Barbara, early on, when the police deliver Stella, a young runaway from a labour camp, to the hospital for the fourth time, Reiser thinks Stella is malingering. Barbara intervenes and orders removal of the restraints on the patient, during her recovery, Stella develops a strong attachment to Barbara, whose welcome bedside manner includes reading the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to her. Stella is pregnant and wants to raise the child, wanting to escape from the country and to have her child in a new land, she implores Barbara to take her with her. However, they cannot find grounds for keeping Stella longer and soon she is returned against her will to the labour camp. As the two spend more and more time together, Reiser begins making romantic overtures, which she rebuffs even while she is impressed by Reiser in turn. He has built a laboratory, to test samples on-site, one day before her planned escape, Barbara is on duty caring for a critically ill patient named Mario, whose suicide attempt had landed him in the hospital. Barbara discovers that Mario has not been recovering from his head injury as well as believed. She tracks Reiser down on his day off, to him of Marios urgent need of surgery. She finds him at the home of the Stasi agent who has been overseeing her monitoring, Reiser is treating the agents wife, who is dying of cancer. Reiser persuades her to return to the hospital – the same night of her planned escape – to perform the surgery, with her assistance as anaesthesiologist during the operation. Following her agreement to be there, yet still planning her escape, when Reiser finally tells Barbara that he is happy to have her there with him, she kisses him. Then she abruptly pulls away from him, and returns to her house to continue preparations for the escape, during this time, Stella flees the labour youth detention programme again and stumbles onto Barbaras doorstep the very night of Barbaras intended escape by sea. Barbara takes her to the area on the beach, where she is to meet a person who will help smuggle her out

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Film poster

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Christian Petzold (director)
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Christian Petzold is a German film director. From 1981 on he lived in Berlin, where he studied theatre, from 1988-1994, he studied film at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin. His first film was Pilotinnen, which he directed for his school graduation in 1995. In 2005, his film Gespenster was presented at the Berlinale film festival, Petzold writes his own scenarios, often collaborating with Harun Farocki. As his former teacher at dffb, Farocki was an influence on Petzold. In Gespenster the protagonist leads a ghost-like existence, In Yella the protagonist is, possibly and these three films came to be called the „Gespenster Trilogy“. The 2008 film Jerichow was his collaboration with Nina Hoss after Something to remind me, Wolfsburg. The drama concerns a soldier who, having returned from Afghanistan to Prignitz, the movie was nominated in the main competition at the 65th Venice International Film Festival in 2008. In 2009, Petzold received a best director nomination for the Deutscher Filmpreis award, although more famous as a director of film and television, Petzold has also staged Arthur Schnitzlers The lonely way at the Deutsches Theater following an invitation by Oliver Reese. The drama, with Nina Hoss as protagonist, premiered on March 14,2009, petzolds film Barbara competed in competition at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival and Petzold won the Silver Bear for Best Director. The film was selected as the German entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, short films,1988, Ich Arbeite Alles Ab

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Hans-Christian Schmid
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Hans-Christian Schmid is a German film director and screenwriter. Hans-Christian Schmid has collaborated with Michael Gutmann on several of the movies that he directed, Gutmann wrote screenplays for 23 — Nichts ist so wie es scheint, and Crazy. Gutmann also directed Herz über Kopf for which he and Schmid wrote the screenplay and his upcoming film Home for the Weekend is scheduled to compete in competition at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012

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Billy Bob Thornton
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Billy Bob Thornton is an American actor, filmmaker, singer, songwriter, and musician. In 2016, he starred in an Amazon original series, Goliath about a washed up attorney with a new case. He has been vocal about his disrespect for celebrity culture, choosing to keep his life out of the public eye, however, the attention of the media has proven unavoidable in certain cases, his marriage to Angelina Jolie being a notable example. Thornton has appeared in at least one film per year every year since 1991. Thornton has written a variety of films, usually set in the Southern United States and mainly co-written with Tom Epperson, including A Family Thing, after Sling Blade, he directed several other films, including Daddy and Them, All the Pretty Horses, and Jayne Mansfields Car. He was also nominated for an Emmy Award, four Golden Globes, in addition to film work, Thornton began a career as a singer-songwriter. He has released four albums and is the vocalist of a blues rock band The Boxmasters. His brother Jimmy Don wrote a number of songs, two of which Thornton has recorded on his solo albums, during his childhood, Thornton lived in numerous places in Arkansas, including Alpine, Mount Holly, and Malvern. He was raised a Methodist in a family in a shack that had neither electricity nor plumbing. He graduated from school in 1973. A good high school player, he tried out for the Kansas City Royals. After a short period laying asphalt for the Arkansas State Transportation Department, he attended Henderson State University to pursue studies in psychology, in the mid-1980s, Thornton settled in Los Angeles to pursue his career as an actor, with future writing partner Tom Epperson. He initially had a difficult time succeeding as an actor, and worked in telemarketing, offshore wind farming and he also played drums and sang with South African rock band Jack Hammer. While Thornton worked as a waiter for an event, he served film director. Thornton struck up a conversation with Wilder, who advised Thornton to consider a career as a screenwriter, thorntons first screen role was in 1980s South of Reno, where he played a small role as a counter man in a restaurant. He also made an appearance as a store clerk in the 1987 Matlock episode The Photographer. Another one of his screen roles was as a cast member on the CBS sitcom Hearts Afire. His role as the villain in 1992s One False Move, which he also co-wrote and he also had small roles in the 1990s films Indecent Proposal, On Deadly Ground, Bound by Honor, and Tombstone

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Sister (2012 film)
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Sister is a 2012 Swiss drama film directed by Ursula Meier. The film competed in competition at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Special Award, the film was selected as the Swiss entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, making the January shortlist. Twelve-year-old Simon lives with his older sister Louise in a housing complex below a luxury Swiss ski resort, despite his age, he supports both him and his sister by stealing equipment from the resort, refurbishing them to look new before reselling them to children at a discounted price. Though he makes a substantial sum of money through these sales, he spends most of it on Louise, buying her clothes, Louise is selfish and irresponsible, unable to hold down a job and frequently going off with men, leaving Simon alone at home. Though Simon tries to teach her how to refurbish the skis, at the ski resort, Simon meets tourist Kristin by helping her with her sons equipment. He introduces himself as Julien, explaining that he is alone because his parents are running a hotel. Later he eats lunch with her and is surprised when she insists on paying for the food and he also meets Mike, an employee of the resort who catches him hoarding stolen skis. Mike is furious, but after Simon explains that he sells the skis to pay for food, Simon continues to steal equipment, and in return for some of it, Mike gives him more access to hide the stolen skis. Mike asks Simon about his parents, and Simon explains that they died in a car accident, Louise returns from her trip with Bruno, who stays the night. Louise explains that Simon is only staying at their home temporarily, when Bruno asks Simon where he lives, Simon replies with my parents and says that they have a fucked-up family. Bruno takes the siblings out driving in his BMW the next morning so that Louise can pick out a car, after Simon sees Bruno and Louise flirting with each other, he confesses that Louise is not his sister, but his mother. Upset, Louise begins to cry, telling her boyfriend that she was going to him eventually. A furious Bruno kicks them out of the car and leaves them to home by themselves. Louise, livid, demands that Simon follow her at a large distance and she says that he has been her ball and chain for twelve years, and he, furious, states that shes his, pointing out that he pays for her. That night, Simon pays money to sleep beside his mother, Simon accepts, and Louise admits that she didnt want to keep him. When Simon asks why she did, she tells him that she only did so because everyone pressured her not to, after Simon falls asleep, Louise sneaks out of the house with the money and gets drunk. Shes found passed out in a field the next morning, Simon realizes that shed spent all of their money and they are broke. Simon returns to the ski resort with another child, and Mike, angered at the sight of a boy stealing, rebukes Simon

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War Witch
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War Witch is a 2012 Canadian dramatic war film written and directed by Kim Nguyen and starring Rachel Mwanza, Alain Lino Mic Eli Bastien and Serge Kanyinda. It is about a child soldier forced into a war in Africa. The film was shot in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in the French. After premiering at the Berlin International Film Festival, the received positive reviews. It won several honours, including 10 at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards, War Witch was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. During a civil war in sub-saharan Africa, a 12-year-old girl named Komona is abducted by forces to become a child soldier under a warlord known as the Great Tiger. The rebels compel Komona to kill her own parents, after drinking tree sap, she begins to experience vivid illusions. When her visions enable her to survive an attack, she is considered to be a witch and is viewed as an asset by the Great Tiger. Komona and her love interest, an albino boy known as Magician, eventually escape the rebels. He hopes to marry her, but she is kidnapped by the Great Tigers forces, Komona, who was raped and is now pregnant, narrates her life story to her fetus. Montreal director Kim Nguyen wrote the screenplay over a period of 10 years, in researching the film, Nguyen met real child soldiers and humanitarian staff. He envisioned his project as a story about a child who lives through war. War Witch was primarily filmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nguyen discovered Rachel Mwanza and numerous other child actors for his cast in Kinshasa, DRC, after open audiontions. Mwanza had never acted before, and was 15 by September 2012, Nguyen said that Rachel was living in the streets before we did the film. Most of War Witch was filmed in the order of the story and it was only the second film shot in the DRC in 25 years, and due to security concerns, the crew was accompanied by soldiers with AK-47s, and insurance was challenging to obtain. The film had its debut at the Berlin International Film Festival on 17 February 2012, Nguyen became the first Canadian to compete for the Silver Bear in 13 years. In the spring, it played in North America for the first time at the Tribeca Film Festival and it also screened from 14 to 15 September at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. It had a release in Toronto and Ottawa on 21 September 2012

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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (film)
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is a 2011 American drama film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Jonathan Safran Foer, directed by Stephen Daldry and written by Eric Roth. It stars Thomas Horn, Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Max von Sydow, Viola Davis, John Goodman, Jeffrey Wright, production took place in New York City. The film had a release in the United States on December 25,2011 by Warner Bros. Pictures, and a release on January 20,2012. Despite mixed reviews, the film was nominated for two Academy Awards, Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor for von Sydow, the film was released in Blu-ray, DVD, and digital download formats in Region 1 on March 27,2012. Nine-year-old Oskar Schell, who has Asperger syndrome, is the son of German American Thomas Schell, Thomas often sent Oskar on missions to do something connected with one of his riddles. The last riddle he gives Oskar proves that New York City once possessed a Sixth Borough, in a flashback, Thomas and Oskar play a scavenger hunt to find objects throughout New York City. The game requires communication with people and is not easy for the socially awkward Oskar. On September 11,2001, Oskar and his classmates are sent home from school early while his mother Linda is at work, when Oskar gets home, he finds five messages from his father on the answering machine saying he is in the World Trade Center. When Thomas calls for the time, Oskar is too scared to answer. The machine records a message which stops when the building collapses. Oskar knows his father has killed and falls to the floor. He replaces the answering machines message with a new one and hides the old one so his mother will never find out, a few weeks after what Oskar calls the worst day, he confides in his German grandmother and they become closer. Oskars relationship with his mother worsens since she cannot explain why the World Trade Center was attacked, Oskar tells his mother he wishes it had been her in the building, not his father, and she responds, So do I. After, Oskar says he did not mean it, but his mother doesnt believe him, a year later, Oskar finds a vase in his fathers closet with a key in an envelope with the word Black on it. He vows to find what the key fits and he finds 472 Blacks in the New York phone book and plans to meet each of them to see if they knew his father. He first meets Abby Black, who has divorced her husband. She tells Oskar she did not know his father, one day, Oskar realizes that a strange man has moved in with his grandmother

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Flying Swords of Dragon Gate
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Flying Swords of Dragon Gate is a 2011 wuxia film directed by Tsui Hark and starring Jet Li, Zhou Xun, Chen Kun, Li Yuchun, Gwei Lun-mei, Louis Fan and Mavis Fan. The film is a remake of Dragon Gate Inn and New Dragon Gate Inn, production started on 10 October 2010 and is filmed in 3-D. The film screened out of competition at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012, the film received seven nominations at the 2012 Asian Film Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. The Emperors eunuchs have gained power and influence, the East Bureau and West Bureau spy and they visit the shipyards, but only as a cover to execute those who would try and report their taking of bribes to the Emperor. Wandering hero Zhao Huaian fights the leader of the East Bureau, defeating him and putting his head in a box, the Emperors chief concubine asks the West Bureau why they waste time on power struggles when she only wants them to prevent the Emperor impregnating anyone aside from her. Three pregnant courtesans have been executed, a fourth is being hunted down, officials stop a riverboat and are about to execute a woman but a masked hero intervenes. Zhao watches from nearby and the masked hero also claims to be Zhao, the imposter helps the courtesan flee to Dragons Gate, Zhao and his followers decide to fight the West Bureau to help delay them and aid in the escape. As a sandstorm threatens and drives most travellers away, a few groups driven by different agendas are determined to stay in the desert at the famous Dragons Gate Inn. Amidst rumors of an ancient city and with Zhao Huaian and the leader of the West Bureau approaching, Tsui also worked on the screenplay in addition to directing and producing the film, to ensure the originality of the story. Jet Li was signed with US$12 million contract to star in this film, comisky will lead a team of 3D crew from China, Korea, Singapore, Spain, etc. Official website Flying Swords of Dragon Gate at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase Flying Swords Of Dragon Gate at Hong Kong Cinemagic Flying Swords of Dragon Gate at the Internet Movie Database

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Tsui Hark
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Tsui Hark, born Tsui Man-kong, is a Vietnam-born Chinese film director, producer and screenwriter. He is viewed as a figure in the Golden Age of Hong Kong cinema and has been regarded by critics as one of the masters of Asian cinematography. Tsui was born and raised in Saigon, Vietnam, to a large Chinese family with sixteen siblings. Tsui showed an early interest in business and films, when he was 10, he. He also drew comic books, an interest that would influence his cinematic style, by the age of 13, he and his family immigrated to Hong Kong. Tsui started his education in Hong Kong in 1966. He proceeded to film in Texas, first at Southern Methodist University and then at the University of Texas at Austin. He claims to have told his parents he wanted to follow in his fathers footsteps as a pharmacist, and that it was here he changed his given name to Hark. After graduation, Tsui moved to New York City, where he worked on From Spikes to Spindles and he also worked as an editor for a Chinese newspaper, developed a community theatre group and worked in a Chinese cable TV station. He returned to Hong Kong in 1977, upon turning to feature filmmaking, Tsui was quickly typed as a member of the New Wave of young, iconoclastic directors. His debut film, The Butterfly Murders, was an eccentric and technically challenging blend of wuxia, murder mystery and his second film, Were Going to Eat You, was an eccentric blend of cannibal horror, black comedy and martial arts. Tsuis third film, Dangerous Encounter of the First Kind, put him beyond the pale, the thriller about delinquent youths on a bombing spree was nihilistic, grisly and pregnant with angry political subtext. Heavily censored by the British colonial government, it was released in 1981 in an altered version titled Dangerous Encounter – 1st Kind. Unsurprisingly, it was not a financial success, Tsui played his part in the process with pictures like the 1981 crime farce All the Wrong Clues, his first hit, and Aces Go Places 3, part of the studios long-running spy spoof series. In 1983, Tsui directed the fantasy film Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain for the studio Golden Harvest. Here, he developed a reputation as a hands-on and even intrusive producer of other directors work, fueled by public breaks with major filmmakers like John Woo. His most longstanding and fruitful collaboration has probably been with Ching Siu-tung, as action choreographer and/or director on many Film Workshop productions, Ching made a major contribution to the well-known Tsui style. Tsui has the knack of trend-setting in film genres which earned him the name Steven Spielberg of Asia

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James Marsh (director)
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Marsh was born in Truro, Cornwall and raised in Sennen, a Cornish village, and Woolwich, a district in southeast London. In Woolwich, he lived in a council flat with his family. Marsh won a scholarship to the University of Oxford, as an undergraduate, he studied at St Catherines College, Oxford and graduated with a degree in English. Marsh began his career in directing with several documentaries made for the BBC. Later came The Burger and the King, The Life and Cuisine of Elvis Presley, in 1995, and the Welsh musician John Cale and his relationship continued with the BBC as a producer in 1993 for three Arena series episodes. In 2005 he directed the film The King which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, in 2008 he made the documentary Man on Wire, about Philippe Petits walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York. Man on Wire won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 81st annual Oscars, the BAFTA Award for Best British film, the Independent Spirit Award, and many others. The film, called exhilarating, has had a positive audience response and was among the Top Ten Films of 2008 on many critics lists. In 2009, he directed the 1980 episode of Red Riding and he also directed Project Nim in 2010, which is based on the book Nim Chimpsky, The Chimp Who Would Be Human by Elizabeth Hess. It is a documentary about the study conducted by Herbert S. Terrace on the subject of animal language acquisition. Marsh watched different films to gain inspiration before making Project Nim and he watched E. T. Frederick Wisemans Primate, and the Bresson film Au hasard Balthazar. He gained the most information from Au hasard Balthazar which is an account of a donkey as it passes through various human owners. The structure of Project Nim reflects a lot from this film as we see the drama of the world through the eyes of the chimpanzee. In 2012, he directed Shadow Dancer, a joint Irish/UK production about the Irish republican movement, the film features Clive Owen, Andrea Riseborough, Gillian Anderson, Domhnall Gleeson and Aidan Gillen. Most recently he directed The Theory of Everything, a biopic on Stephen Hawking starring Eddie Redmayne, Marsh received a nomination for the BAFTA for Best Director and the film was nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Picture. Marsh currently lives in Copenhagen, Denmark, with his Danish wife, james Marsh at the Internet Movie Database

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Young Adult (film)
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Young Adult is a 2011 American comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman, from a screenplay written by Diablo Cody, and starring Charlize Theron. Reitman and Cody worked together previously on Juno, Young Adult began a limited release on December 9,2011, before expanding to a wide release on December 16. Mavis Gary is a divorced, alcoholic 37-year-old ghost writer of a series of adult novels. Mavis receives an e-mail with a picture of the daughter of her high school boyfriend Buddy Slade. In the interim, she goes alone to a different bar, there she reconnects with a former classmate she barely remembers, Matt Freehauf, who became disabled after being beaten by jocks who erroneously assumed he was gay. Matt tells Mavis that her plan to destroy Buddys marriage is irrational and selfish, the following day, Mavis meets Buddy at the sports bar, where they run into Matt, the bars bookkeeper. On their way out, Buddy invites Mavis to a performance of Beths mom rock band, in the interim, Mavis spends another night getting drunk with Matt, who distills homemade bourbon in the garage of the house he shares with his sister Sandra. When Mavis attends the concert of Beths band, the other moms are resentful of Mavis, when Beths band performs, the lead singer dedicates their opening song to Buddy from Beth, much to Maviss dismay, it is The Concept. Beth wants to stay out longer, so Mavis offers to drive the drunk Buddy home, on the lawn they share a kiss that is quickly broken up when the babysitter opens the front door to greet them. The next day, after an encounter with her parents. She later goes out drinking with Matt again, during which Matt tells Mavis to grow up, the following day, Mavis attends the party, where she declares her love for Buddy, but he rebuffs her. Everyone at the party is called out to the lawn to await a surprise Buddy has prepared for Beth, Mavis, who has been drinking at the party, collides with Beth, who accidentally spills punch on Maviss dress. Mavis insults her, and in a profanity-laced tirade tearfully reveals she became pregnant with Buddys baby years ago, Buddy, who has been preparing a drum-set gift for Beth in the garage, opens the garage door and belatedly learns what has transpired. Mavis asks him why he invited her and he reveals it was Beths idea, as she feels sorry for Mavis. Humiliated, Mavis leaves the party and visits Matt, where she breaks down in tears and, later, the following morning, while Matt sleeps, Mavis has coffee in the kitchen with Sandra, who still idolizes her. Mavis talks about needing to change herself, but Sandra says Mavis is better than the rest of Mercury, Mavis says she agrees, and prepares to return to Minneapolis. Sandra asks to go with her but Mavis declines and leaves alone, in a diner on her way home, Mavis writes the last chapter of the book, in which the main character graduates high school, quickly leaves her past behind and looks forward to the future. Afterward, in the lot, Mavis contemplates her crumpled car

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Jason Reitman
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Jason Reitman is a Canadian-American film director, screenwriter, and producer, best known for directing the films Thank You for Smoking, Juno, Up in the Air, and Young Adult. As of February 2,2010, he has received one Grammy Award and four Academy Award nominations, Reitman is a dual citizen of Canada and the United States. He is the son of director Ivan Reitman, Reitman was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the son of Geneviève Robert, an actress sometimes billed as Geneviève Deloir, and comedy director Ivan Reitman. Reitman has two sisters, Catherine, an actress, who is three years younger than him, and Caroline, a nurse, who is 12 years younger. Reitmans father was born in Czechoslovakia, to Jewish parents who were Holocaust survivors, Reitmans paternal grandfather ran a dry cleaner and then a car wash. His mother is from a Christian background, and of French-Canadian descent, when he was still a child, his family moved to Los Angeles. His father, Ivan, directed the films Ghostbusters, Stripes, and Kindergarten Cop. Reitman grew up on set and this showed him that making movies is a job that people do, that its not just this piece of magic that happens. Jason described his childhood self as a loser, in the late 1980s, Reitman began appearing in small acting parts and serving as a production assistant on his fathers films. He spent time in the rooms of his fathers movies. Reitman graduated from Harvard-Westlake School in 1995, Reitman was a jumper in high school. Reitman attended Skidmore College and was going to major in pre-med studies before transferring to the University of Southern California to major in English/Creative Writing, at USC he performed with improv group Commedus Interruptus. Reitman started out making short films during his time at USC, throughout his 20s, instead of accepting offers to make commercial feature films, Reitman began making his own short films and directing commercials. Although he was offered the opportunity to direct Dude, Wheres My Car. on two occasions, he declined. Reitmans first feature film, Thank You for Smoking, opened in 2006, Reitman developed the Christopher Buckley novel into a screenplay and, eventually, a film. The film was a commercial and critical success and it grossed over $39 million worldwide by the end of its run, and was nominated for two Golden Globes. After the success of Thank You for Smoking, Reitman mentioned in an interview that his film would be adapting another book into a film. He also mentioned that he had plans to work with Buckley again on an original project, although the first of these projects would eventually become Up in the Air, this second project has not come to fruition. His second film, Juno, generated great buzz after it premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival and was released in December 2007

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Sylvia Chang
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Sylvia Chang Ai-chia is a Taiwanese actress, writer, singer, producer and director. In 1992, she was a member of the jury at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival, Sylvia Chang was born in Chiayi, Taiwan and went off to school, until she was 16, where upon she dropped out and started her career as a radio DJ. When she was 18 years old she acted in her first film, Chang acted in her first film, The Tattooed Dragon, when she was 18 years old. In her most recent film,203040, she played the 40-year-old woman protagonist, wrote, Chang often attempted to do her own stunts in the four-part TV series Aces Go Places. She stated in an interview with film editor Clarence Tsui, I still think Hong Kongs film industry is male-dominated and she also believes that There arent many male filmmakers who would write scripts for women. She helped write the script of Run Papa Run, based on the novel by Benny Li Shuan Yan, that follows a man who belongs to the Triad and the relationship he has with his mother, wife, and daughter. Chang said in an interview that, I thought why dont I explore the gentler side of men, Chang first began performing in theatre productions more than 30 years ago. She returned to the stage in the production of Design For Living that premiered in November 2008, critics have remarked upon the versatility in her roles along with her willingness to always try for something new. Chang is also a singer and her music has become popular in karaoke, in the 1980s, Changs second film to direct, Passion, which she wrote and also starred in, won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress. She has stated, I had never went to any school as a director or a filmmaker, for a time, Chang was the head producer of New Cinema City in Taiwan, but left a few years after joining. Chang once said of her films that, Ive always felt that animation or special effects shouldnt just be limited to science-fiction films, dramas can also play around with them. One critic wrote of her, that In an industry that kisses young actresses with celebrity, then swallows them and spits them out and she is the only Hong Kong actress of her generation—the early 70s—to keep starring in movies. Changs films have even been accepted into the London and Toronto International film Festivals and she has served on the jury for the Berlin Film Festival. She also holds the record for the most nominations for Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress, Chang is an advocate and a life-long volunteer for World Vision International, the humanitarian aid, development, and advocacy organization. She created an advertisement, sponsored by World Vision, to promote the company and she is a member and advocate for the World Vision-sponsored 30 Hour Famine. Sylvia Chang is married to businessman Wang Ching Hung and they have one son, in July 2000, Sylvia Changs nine-year-old son Oscar was kidnapped and held for a ransom of HK $15 million. The police found him after a few days, safe, change stated, With your life, you have to move on, theres no other choice, so, out of no choice, then, its a matter of your attitude. Clarify or elaborate 1992 The Price of Love Sylvia Chang at the Internet Movie Database

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Elles (film)
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Elles is a 2011 European film, directed and co-written by Polish director Małgorzata Szumowska. It shows an episode in the life of Anne, a journalist in Paris for French Elle who is writing an article about female student prostitution, where Anne is expecting misery and distress, she discovers freedom, pride, and empowerment. As Anne’s professional curiosity in the two becomes a matter of personal interest, she starts to rediscover her own sexuality. Elles premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival and first entered general release in France in February 2012, the film is set during the course of one day. Anne is trying to meet the deadline for her article about prostitution, while shopping and preparing dinner for her husbands boss and she is also worried about her two sons, the eldest of whom has been skipping classes while the younger appears to start being hooked on video games. Anne interviews Alicja, arriving from Poland to study in France, she not only lost her suitcase, another student came to her rescue, but admitted that his generosity was part of the courtship. By the time we see her interviewed by Anne, Alicja has earned enough to have a very nice apartment along with designer clothes. She is much more hedonistic than Charlotte and proceeds to get Anne drunk during the course of the interview in her apartment, when asked who her clients are, Alicja simply replies that they are bored husbands. Charlotte is quite a different person, she seems very relaxed about the sex she has with her clients and she has tried doing part-time work but found that her studies suffered so she turned to prostitution. But she still does the shift as she needs to be able to explain to her family. These sexual encounters inevitably lead to conflict in her relationship with her boyfriend who at one point demands to know if she is seeing someone else, list of French films Elles at the Internet Movie Database

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Tony Gatlif
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Tony Gatlif is a French film director of Romani ethnicity who also works as a screenwriter, composer, actor, and producer. Gatlif was born in Algiers to a Kabyle father and a Romani mother, after his childhood there, Gatlif arrived in France in 1960 following the Algerian War of Independence. Gatlif struggled for years to break into the industry, playing in several theatrical productions until directing his first film, La Tête en ruine. He followed it with the 1979 La Terre au ventre, a story of the Algerian War of Independence, since the 1981 film Corre, gitano, Gatlifs work has been focused on the Romani people of Europe, from whom he partially traces his descent. After making Gaspard et Robinson in 1990, Gatlif spent 1992 and 1993 shooting Latcho Drom and this feature-length musical film, often mislabelled as a documentary, deals with gypsy culture throughout the world around the theme of their music and dance. For Vincent Ostria, then journalist at the Cahiers du Cinéma, a year later, Gatlif brought the world of the author J. M. G. Le Clézio to the screen in Mondo and his 2004 film Exils, won the Best Director Award at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. His film Transylvania also premiered at Cannes in May 2006, tony Gatlif at the Internet Movie Database Interview

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Iron Sky
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Iron Sky is a 2012 Finnish-German-Australian comic science fiction action film directed by Timo Vuorensola and written by Johanna Sinisalo and Michael Kalesniko. It tells the story of a group of Nazi Germans who, having defeated in 1945, fled to the Moon. It was theatrically released throughout Europe in April 2012, a directors cut of the film with 20 additional minutes was released on DVD and Blu-ray on 11 March 2014. A video-game adaptation titled Iron Sky, Invasion was released in October 2012, a sequel, titled Iron Sky, The Coming Race, is currently being crowdfunded through Indiegogo and is slated for a 2017 release. The film opens in 2018 with an American manned landing mission to the Moon, the lander carries two astronauts, one of them an African American male model, James Washington, specifically chosen to aid the U. S. President in her re-election. Upon landing on the far side of the Moon, they encounter the descendents of Nazis who escaped to the Moon in 1945, Washington is taken captive after the other astronaut is killed. When the Doktor strives to demonstrate his Wunderwaffe to the current Führer, Wolfgang Kortzfleisch, Nazi commander Klaus Adler, chosen for genetic reasons to mate with Earth specialist Renate Richter, embarks in a flying saucer to collect more such computers on Earth. He takes with him Washington, who has been Aryanized by Doktor Richter using an albinizing drug, upon landing in New York City, they discover that Renate has stowed away with them. They abandon Washington after he connects them with the Presidents campaign adviser, whereafter Adler and Renate energize the Presidents re-election campaign using Nazi-style rhetoric. At the time, Renate is unaware of Adlers ambition to replace Kortzfleisch, after three months, Kortzfleisch lands on Earth and confronts Adler, but is killed by Adler and Vivian. Adler declares himself the new Führer before returning to orbit in Kortzfleischs flying saucer, deserting Vivian, concurrently, Renate is persuaded by the now-homeless Washington that Adler intends global genocide. The U. S. Air Force engage the flying saucers with some success, the United Nations assembles to discuss the Moon Nazi threat. They dispatch them against the Nazi fleet and wipe out the Siegfrieds, Adler arrives in Kortzfleischs flying saucer with the tablet computer to activate the Götterdämmerung. Renate and Washington travel in Adlers flying saucer to the Götterdämmerung, meanwhile, the international space fleet damage the Nazis Moon base and approach the Götterdämmerung which dwarfs them all. Commanding the Götterdämmerung, Adler destroys parts of the Moon to expose Earth to his line-of-fire, during the battle, Washington disconnects Vivians tablet from the control panel of the Götterdämmerung, while Renate kills Adler before he can fire at Earth. Renate and Washington separately escape as the Götterdämmerung crashes into the Moon and this enrages the other UN members, who engage in a brawl, while the international fleet turn on each other. At the damaged Moon base, Renate reunites with Washington, who has reverted his pigmentation back to normal and they kiss before a confused group of Nazi survivors, whom Renate assures, have a lotta work cut out for. The final moments of the show the Earth apparently during an international nuclear war

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Keep the Lights On
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Keep the Lights On is an American drama film, which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and was released in New York City and Los Angeles on September 7,2012 by Music Box Films. The films cast also includes David Anzuelo, Maria Dizzia, Julianne Nicholson, Souléymane Sy Savané, Miguel Del Toro and Paprika Steen. The film is based on Sachs own past relationship with Bill Clegg, in 1998, Erik, a Danish artist living in New York City, meets Paul, a lawyer, through a phone sex hotline. Clearly attracted to other, they share an intimate moment and have sex. Erik later visits a man named Russ who seems interested in showing off his muscles to Erik than having sex. Erik sees Paul again, and tells him about how he broke up with his ex-boyfriend Paolo, Erik confides to his friend Claire on how he is happier now with Paul than he was with Paolo. Meanwhile, Paul asks Erik to keep quiet about his drug use, Paul, who was closeted before meeting Erik, sees his ex-girlfriend while visiting an art gallery with Erik, who tries to persuade Paul to introduce him to her. While away from the city, Erik calls his doctor for some test results, later, Paul throws a surprise birthday party for Erik. In 2000, Paul catches Erik talking to another man in the street, while confronting Erik about this, Paul argues with him, but they manage to get over it. Paul then briefly goes missing during a dinner with Erik and his friends, Erik, away from home working on his documentary, feels lonely and calls a phone sex hotline. However, he is startled when he is connected with Paul, back in New York, Erik argues again with Paul but they manage to make up in the night. Later, Erik returns home from working on his documentary, he finds an unconscious Paul outside their apartment, Paul is sent to rehab and states that Erik ruined his life. Erik goes to a gay club and meets a painter named Igor, in 2003, with Pauls release from rehab and Eriks success with his film, Erik assumes everything will be better. Eriks life is rocked when he learns that Paul hasnt been home while he was away for work, however, while his sister comforts him, Erik gets a call from Paul who tells him to visit him in his hotel. Paul displays erratic behavior, trying to pretend he is okay while it is clear to Erik that he hasnt improved since rehab. Erik tries to convince Paul to return home, but Paul remains at the hotel, Erik later visits Russ, and the two share some drugs and presumably have sex. In 2006, after not having each other for about a year, Paul meets Erik at a diner. He then invites Paul to spend the night at his apartment, to which Paul agrees, Erik later runs into Igor on the street, and the two have a drink at a bar

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My Brother the Devil
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My Brother the Devil is a 2012 British crime drama film written and directed by Sally El Hosaini. It has won awards, including at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. It stars James Floyd, Fady Elsayed and Saïd Taghmaoui and it tells the story of two sons of Egyptian immigrants coming of age in east London. It was released in UK on 9 November 2012 and was in US cinemas from 22 March 2013, further releases in Canada, Germany, Australia and New Zealand. Mo and Rashid Rash are teenage brothers of Egyptian descent living with their parents in Hackney, elder brother Rash is fiercely protective of Mo, giving him a TV when he does well and encouraging him to stay in school. However Mo begins to want to emulate Rash who works as a low level drug dealer, Mo is robbed by rival gang members while trying to do a drop-off for his brother. In retaliation he calls Rash and his friends when he spots the gang members at the corner store near where he lives. The fight between Rashs gang and his rival Demons gang quickly grows violent and after Demons dog is stabbed Demon retaliates by stabbing and killing Izzi, Rash acquires a gun and plans to shoot Demon in retaliation. He finds Demon at a tattoo parlour but is unable to complete the task after seeing that Demons little brother is there, Rash begins to dream of getting out of the gang the way Izzi was planning on doing before he was murdered. He grows close to Sayyid, a French photographer who had been helping Izzi to get legal employment, after he tells Sayyid that he wants to leave the gang Sayyid offers him a job as a photography assistant working with him. Mo begins to grow jealous of Rash and Sayyids increasing closeness, when he is offered the opportunity to join Rashs gang as a dealer he takes it. In the meantime Sayyid kisses Rashid while they are playing around, initially repulsed at the idea of kissing another man, Rash tries to go back to his old lifestyle. However he finds himself changed and ends up going back to Sayyid, Mo, growing suspicious that Rash is not in fact working, goes to Sayyids home to spy and sees the two men undressed and realizes what is going on. Angry at his brother, Mo continues to deal drugs and become entrenched in Rashs old gang. Eventually Rash finds Mos money and drugs and he confronts his former friends telling them that he will kill Demon in exchange for them allowing Mo to walk away from the drug business and his family to stay safe and unharmed. Upset that Rash has isolated him from his family Mo ends up telling Rashs former girlfriend Vanessa that Rash is gay. She spreads it around the neighbourhood and Rashs former friends give him the address of a house belonging to Demon which is actually a set up so they can kill Rash, however Rash manages to escape from the house. The day after Rashs escape some of his friends go to Mo, Mo goes with them but becomes suspicious when he sees plastic gloves, the kind that the gang uses for killings, hanging out of one of the mens pockets

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My Way (2011 film)
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My Way is a 2011 South Korean war film by Kang Je-gyu which stars Jang Dong-gun along with Japanese actor Joe Odagiri and Chinese actress Fan Bingbing. This film is inspired by the story of a Korean named Yang Kyoungjong who was captured by the Americans on D-Day. Yang Kyoungjong was conscripted into the Japanese Imperial Army, the Red Army, the year is 1928 in Gyeong-seong, Korea. Young Kim Jun-shik, his father and sister Eun-soo work on the farm of the Hasegawa family in Japanese-occupied Korea, both Jun-shik and young Tatsuo Hasegawa are interested in running, by the time they are teenagers, they have become fierce competitors. In May 1938, Jun-shik is working as a rickshaw runner, Koreans have been banned from taking part in sports events and Tatsuo, now a fierce Japanese nationalist, has sworn that a Korean will never again win a race. Though he has been accepted by a college in Berlin. Sohn secretly backs Jun-shik and the latter wins the race, though Tatsuo is awarded the medal when Jun-shik is disqualified for allegedly cheating, a riot by Korean spectators ensues. As punishment, those who started the riot are forcibly drafted into the Japanese army, including Jun-shik and his friend Lee Jong-dae, Tatsuo, now a colonel, arrives and takes command, forcing the existing commander, Takakura, to commit seppuku. After refusing to join a suicide squad organized by Tatsuo to fight the Soviets, Jun-shik is imprisoned with Shirai but escapes with her, Jong-dae, Jun-shik, seeing the tanks on the horizon, attempts to return to base to warn the Japanese forces. During his return, he is attacked by a Soviet I-16 Ishak, and is saved by Shirai, Jun-shik returns to the base and manages to warn the Japanese forces that a large-scale Soviet tank attack is coming, but Tatsuo refuses to order a retreat. A tank shell explodes near Tatsuo and Jun-shik, knocking them unconscious, in February 1940, Jun-shik and Tatsuo end up in Kungursk POW camp, north of Perm, in the Soviet Union, where both Koreans and Japanese are incarcerated together. Jun-shik humiliates Tatsuo in a fight to the death, but then Jun-shik suddenly refuses to kill Tatsuo. Later, a work accident incites a riot, which led to an execution by firing squad of Tatsuo and Jun-shik. The Soviets immediately conscript the POWs, shooting those who refuse or were too slow to don the Red Army uniform, Jong-dae volunteers Jun-shik and Tatsuo — still tied to the stakes — into the Red Army, saving their lives. They all fight in a battle against the German army at Dedovsk in December 1941. Jong-dae dies while leading the Soviets to battle, but Tatsuo, Jun-shik convinces Tatsuo to don German military apparel taken from bodies and trek over the mountains into German territory. As they travel, it clear that Tatsuo has been injured. They come upon a town where Jun-shik goes out to find medicine to give to Tatsuo

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The Parade (film)
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The Parade is a 2011 Serbian comedy-drama film, written and directed by Srđan Dragojević and released on 31 October 2011. The film, which deals with LGBT rights issues in Serbia, the film introduces a group of gay activists, trying to organize a pride parade in Belgrade. Among them Mirko Dedijer, a theater director who mostly makes a living by planning lavish. Organizing such a parade is no task in Serbia as evidenced by the violence at the 2001 parade attempt. Mirkos effeminate boyfriend Radmilo is a veterinarian - he is not nearly as political and is quite content keeping a low profile, although the two try to live discreetly, both still experience various forms of abuse from the homophobic majority. In parallel, we meet Miško Drašković a. k. a, Limun, a macho Serbian veteran of the Yugoslav Wars in his mid-to-late forties. His son from a previous marriage Vuk works in a repair shop and is a member of a fringe right wing skinhead group that often engages in violence against gays. The paths of the two couples cross, Radmilo performs a life-saving operation on Limuns beloved bulldog, the victim of a drive-by shooting that served as warning to the dogs master. Simultaneously, Biserka seeks out Mirko with a view of hiring him to plan out hers, Biserka decides to stop all contact with Limun but calls Mirko in order to apologize. Radmilo picks up the phone and while learning of the circumstances of Biserkas and Limuns situation realizes an opportunity and he then shows up at Limuns agency/judo club offering Mirkos services in organizing the wedding party for Limun and Biserka in return for Limuns personnel securing the gay parade. Limun reluctantly accepts, and though Biserka returns to him as a result of the new development, put in a tight spot, Limun thinks of hiring his former enemies from the Yugoslav Wars. Limun and Radmilo embark on a trip all over ex-Yugoslavia. He wrote the first screenplay draft for Parada in 2004 before coming back to it in 2007 after failing to secure financing for his film project titled 1999. In that time he experimented with framing the screenplay within different genres and he penned the final version of the script over three weeks during summer 2008 while on vacation on the island of Mljet. The shooting actually began a year later at the 2010 parade, according to one of its producers Biljana Prvanović, Parada cost €1. Dragojević complained in interviews that over hundred companies in Serbia turned him down for funding due to not wanting to be associated with a gay-themed project. After the media screening on 28 October 2011, Parada premiered in Belgrades Sava Centar on Monday,31 October, premiere in Novi Sad was held on November the 1st and in Niš on 18 November. In Montenegro, premiere took place in Podgorica on 16 November, supporting a movie, even as an extracurricular activity, is meddling in the school curriculum and that is serious stuff

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The Wall (2012 drama film)
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The Wall is a 2012 Austrian-German drama film written and directed by Julian Pölsler and starring Martina Gedeck. Left alone while her friends walk to a village, the woman soon discovers she is cut off from all human contact by a mysterious invisible wall. With her friends loyal dog Lynx as her companion, she lives the next three years in isolation looking after her animals, the Wall was filmed on location in the Salzkammergut region of the Austrian Alps. The film was selected as the Austrian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, a woman travels with her two friends, Hugo and Luise, and their loyal dog Lynx to their isolated hunting lodge in the Austrian Alps. Soon after they arrive, Luise insists that Hugo accompany her to a pub in a village, leaving behind their dog. The next morning, realizing her friends never returned as planned, as she walks along the road, her progress is stopped abruptly by a mysterious invisible wall. After several unsuccessful attempts to continue past the barrier, the woman turns back to the lodge with the dog. Along the way she approaches a farmhouse, but again is prevented by the wall from making contact with the two owners who appear frozen in time. Back at the lodge, the woman grows increasingly depressed over her predicament, after exploring the area again with binoculars, she concludes that the couple at the farmhouse, as well as all the people in the village, must be dead. During her walk, the woman encounters a cow that she takes with her, knowing the animal is both a blessing and a burden, she feeds and milks her, and names her Bella. Sometime later, she gets into Hugos car and drives down the road toward the village, fighting off despair, the woman decides that she can survive the summer with the cow and her endless supply of wood. While she plants potatoes and looks for food, she keeps track of the time by crossing off the days on a calendar—a remnant of the civilized life she still retains. She takes in a stray cat, while she welcomes the newcomer, the dog remains her only friend in a world of troubles and loneliness—always happy to see her. To survive, she is forced to engage in the business of hunting animals for food. One day the woman hikes to another lodge in a mountain pasture. Comforted by the summer sun, the beautiful mountains, and the gentle sounds of birds. Soon the cat gives birth and the names the newborn white cat Pearl. Later that summer, the woman with great effort harvests the hay in the meadow, in the fall, the white cat Pearl dies in a wind storm

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Der Tagesspiegel
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Der Tagesspiegel is a German daily newspaper. It has regional correspondent offices in Washington D. C. and it is the only major newspaper in the capital to have increased its circulation—now 148, 000—since reunification. For more than 45 years, Der Tagesspiegel was owned by an independent trust and its current publisher is Dieter von Holtzbrinck with editors in chief Stephan-Andreas Casdorff and Lorenz Maroldt. Lorenz Maroldt was noted for using the phrase entartete Werkstatt der Kulturen. Pierre Gerckens, Giovanni di Lorenzo and Hermann Rudolph are editors of the newspaper, some of the notable writers include Bas Kast and Harald Martenstein. The papers main readership is in the half of the city, due to the 1948 blockade having stopped its circulation in East Berlin. The paper has recently redesigned, introducing more color and a clearer typeface. In 2005 it was awarded the Worlds Best-Designed Newspapers Award by the Society for News Design in New York and it is owned by Verlag Der Tagesspiegel GmbH, a member of the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, and associated with the Wall Street Journal. In 2009, Dieter von Holtzbrinck bought Der Tagesspiegel and Handelsblatt from Holtzbrinck, from 2005 to 2007, American journalist Michael Scaturro edited the English-language version of Der Tagesspiegel, which was known as The Berlin Paper. In 2007 and 2008 Der Tagesspiegels Washington D. C. correspondent and he wrote a book entitled Barack Obama – Der schwarze Kennedy. The literal translation of its German title is Barack Obama – the Black Kennedy and his book was a bestseller in Germany, where other commentators had also compared the two Americans. Official website Society for News Design Tagesspiegel Worlds Best-Designed Detail Page

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Silver Bear for Best Actress
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The Silver Bear for Best Actress is the Berlin International Film Festivals award for achievement in performance by an actress. It is selected by the jury of the festival for films in the competition slate. The award was first presented in 1956, and can be for lead or supporting roles, the award was not presented in 1969,1970,1973, and 1974. Sachiko Hidari won the award for two films in the 1964 competition, in 2011 the award was given to the entire female cast of A Separation. Shirley MacLaine is the actress that has won the award more than once. ‡ - indicates the performance was nominated for an Academy Award Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress Volpi Cup for Best Actress Berlinale website Berlin Film Festival at IMDb

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Silver Bear
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The Berlin International Film Festival, also called the Berlinale, is one of the worlds leading film festivals and most reputable media events. It is held annually in Berlin, Germany, founded in West Berlin in 1951, the festival has been celebrated annually in February since 1978. With around 300,000 tickets sold and 500,000 admissions it is considered the largest publicly attended film festival based on actual attendance rates. Up to 400 films are shown in sections, representing a comprehensive array of the cinematic world. Around twenty films compete for the called the Golden and Silver Bears. Since 2001 the director of the festival has been Dieter Kosslick, the European Film Market, a film trade fair held simultaneously to the Berlinale, is a major industry meeting for the international film circuit. The trade fair serves distributors, film buyers, producers, financiers, the Berlinale Talent Campus, a week-long series of lectures and workshops, gathers young filmmakers from around the globe. It partners with the festival itself and is considered to be a forum for upcoming artists, the festival, the EFM and other satellite events are attended by around 20,000 professionals from over 130 countries. More than 4200 journalists are responsible for the exposure in over 110 countries. At high-profile feature film premieres, movie stars and celebrities are present at the red carpet, the Berlinale has established a cosmopolitan character integrating art, glamour, commerce and a global media attention. The Berlin International Film Festival was founded in West Berlin in 1951, alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca opened the first Berlinale. Although the film had premiered in 1940, many Germans had been unable to watch it until after the war ended, since 1978 the festival has been celebrated annually in February. The next-to-most recent festival, the 66th Berlinale, was held from 11 February to 21 February 2016, meryl Streep presided over the international jury. Joel and Ethan Coens film Hail, Caesar. was selected to open the festival, the Golden Bear was awarded to the Italian documentary Fire at Sea, directed by Gianfranco Rosi. The 67th Berlin International Film Festival was held February 9 to February 19,2017, the festival is composed of seven different film sections. Films are chosen in each category by a director with the advice of a committee of film experts. Categories include, Competition, comprises feature-length films yet to be released outside their country of origin, films in the Competition section compete for several prizes, including the top Golden Bear for the best film and a series of Silver Bears for acting, writing and production. Panorama, comprises new independent and arthouse films that deal with controversial subjects or unconventional aesthetic styles, films in the category are intended to provoke discussion, and have historically involved themes such as LGBT issues

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Berlinale Palace, the main venue at Potsdamer Platz
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Berlin International Film Festival
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Venues of the festival are spread throughout the central city districts
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The Berlinale Palast is the venue for the competition premieres

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Berlin Film Festival Award for Best Actress
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The Silver Bear for Best Actress is the Berlin International Film Festivals award for achievement in performance by an actress. It is selected by the jury of the festival for films in the competition slate. The award was first presented in 1956, and can be for lead or supporting roles, the award was not presented in 1969,1970,1973, and 1974. Sachiko Hidari won the award for two films in the 1964 competition, in 2011 the award was given to the entire female cast of A Separation. Shirley MacLaine is the actress that has won the award more than once. ‡ - indicates the performance was nominated for an Academy Award Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress Volpi Cup for Best Actress Berlinale website Berlin Film Festival at IMDb

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3rd Berlin International Film Festival
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The 3rd annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 18 June –28 June 1953. This years festival did not give any official jury prizes, instead awards were given by audience voting and this continued until the FIAPF granted Berlin A-Status in 1956. Golden Bear was awarded to Le Salaire de la peur by audience vote, the festival held a retrospective on the Silent films

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27th Berlin International Film Festival
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The 27th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 24 June –5 July 1977. The festival opened with Nickelodeon by Peter Bogdanovich, the Golden Bear was awarded to the Soviet Union film The Ascent directed by Larisa Shepitko. The retrospective dedicated to Marlene Dietrich was shown at the festival and it was divided into two parts, Part 1 was shown this year

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28th Berlin International Film Festival
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The 28th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 22 February to 5 March 1978. The festival opened with Opening Night by John Cassavetes and closed with Steven Spielbergs out of competition film Close Encounters of the Third Kind and this was the first year the festival was held in February. The jury awarded the Golden Bear to Spain for its contribution to the festival, a new section for children was introduced at the festival. The Part 2 of the dedicated to Marlene Dietrich was shown at the festival

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33rd Berlin International Film Festival
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The 33rd annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 18 February to 3 March 1983. The festival opened with out of film, Tootsie by Sydney Pollack. The Golden Bear was awarded to the British film Ascendancy directed by Edward Bennett, six Actors from Germany was shown at the festival. The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival, Jeanne Moreau Alex Bänninger Franco Brusati Elem Klimov Ursula Ludwig Kurt Maetzig Joseph L

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Jeanne Moreau, Jury President
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1983 Retrospective poster, titled Exile. Six Actors from Germany
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Edward Bennett, one of the winners of the Golden Bear at the event

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36th Berlin International Film Festival
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The 36th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held 14–25 February 1986. The festival opened with Ginger and Fred by Federico Fellini, which played out of competition at the festival, the Golden Bear was awarded to German film Stammheim directed by Reinhard Hauff. The retrospective dedicated to German actress and film producer Henny Porten was shown at the festival, claude Lanzmanna 9 hour long documentary film Shoah about holocaust was screened at International Forum of New Cinema

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48th Berlin International Film Festival
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The 48th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from February 11 to 22,1998. The festival opened with the Irish film The Boxer by Jim Sheridan, francis Ford Coppolas The Rainmaker was selected as the closing night film. The Golden Bear was awarded to Brazilian-French film Central Station directed by Walter Salles, the retrospective dedicated to Siodmak Bros. titled Siodmak Bros. Berlin – London – Paris – Hollywood was shown at the festival

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Ben Kingsley, Jury President
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Walter Salles, winner of the Golden Bear at the festival

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49th Berlin International Film Festival
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The 49th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from February 10 to 21,1999. The festival opened with Aimée & Jaguar by Max Färberböck, the Golden Bear was awarded to Canadian-American film The Thin Red Line directed by Terrence Malick. The retrospective dedicated to Austrian-American theatre and film director Otto Preminger was shown at the festival,70 mm version of Premingers 1959 musical film Porgy and Bess served as the closing night film

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Ángela Molina, Jury President
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Terrence Malick, winner of the Golden Bear at the festival

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51st Berlin International Film Festival
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The 51st annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from February 7 to 18,2001. The festival opened with war-drama film Enemy at the Gates by Jean-Jacques Annaud,70 mm restored version of Stanley Kubricks 1968 Sci-fi film 2001, A Space Odyssey was the closing film of the festival. The Golden Bear was awarded to French-British film Intimacy directed by Patrice Chéreau, the retrospective dedicated to German-Austrian filmmaker, screenwriter Fritz Lang was shown at the festival

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52nd Berlin International Film Festival
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The 52nd annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from February 6 to 17,2002. The festival opened with Heaven by Tom Tykwer, new print of Charlie Chaplins 1940 American satirical dramedy film The Great Dictator was the closing film of the festival. The Golden Bear was awarded to British–Irish film Bloody Sunday directed by Paul Greengrass, the retrospective dedicated to European films from 1960’s titled European 60’s was shown at the festival. Dieter Kosslick became the director of the festival, taking over from Moritz de Hadeln

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Mira Nair, Jury President
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2002 Retrospective poster, dedicated to European films from 1960's.
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Paul Greengrass, co-winner of the Golden Bear at the festival

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58th Berlin International Film Festival
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The 58th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from February 7 to February 17,2008. The festival opened with Martin Scorseses documentary film Shine a Light, be Kind Rewind by Michel Gondry served as the closing film. Greek-French filmmaker Costa Gavras, was selected to serve as the Jury President at the festival, the Golden Bear was awarded to Brazilian film Tropa de Elite directed by José Padilha. The retrospective dedicated to Spanish film-maker Luis Buñuel was shown at the festival. de

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Costa Gavras, Jury President
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José Padilha, winner of the Golden Bear at the festival

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59th Berlin International Film Festival
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The 59th Berlin International Film Festival was held from 5 February to 15 February 2009. The opening film of the festival was Tom Tykwer’s The International, costa-Gavrass immigrant drama Eden Is West served as the closing night film at the festival. The festivals jury president was actress Tilda Swinton of the United Kingdom, the Golden Bear was awarded to Peruvian film La Teta Asustada directed by Claudia Llosa. The retrospective dedicated to the Golden Age of 70mm filmmaking from 1955 to 1970, the final ticket tally was the largest in the festival’s 59-year history. de 59th Berlin International Film Festival 2009

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Tilda Swinton, Jury President
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Claudia Llosa, winner of the Golden Bear at the festival

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65th Berlin International Film Festival
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The 65th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 5 to 15 February 2015, with American film director Darren Aronofsky as the President of the Jury. German film director Wim Wenders was presented with the Honorary Golden Bear, the first seven films of the festival were announced on 15 December 2014. Isabel Coixets Nobody Wants the Night was announced as the opening film, the Iranian drama film Taxi, directed by Jafar Panahi, won the Golden Bear, which also served as the closing film of the festival. For the first time in 2015, a Berlin Critics Week ran parallel to the official festival, similar to International Critics Week at the Cannes festival, Berlin Critics Week is a sidebar run by the German Film Critics Association and screens arthouse films. Festival director Dieter Kosslick described the poster as the glamorous and suspense-packed second that precedes every cinema experience is when the curtain opens to reveal the screen and this years poster motif aims to stir anticipation for that magical moment